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K. w. SCHMIDT BRUSH Filed April 30, 1925 Fig. 2.

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Patented Apr. 20, 1926,

UNITED STATES GEORG KARL WILHELM SCHMIDT, 0F FEU'CHTWANGEN, GERMANY.

BRUSH.

Application filed April 30, 1925.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnonc KARL VVIL- HELM SCHMIDT, a citizen of the German Republic, residing at Feuchtwangen, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brushes (for which I have tiled a patent application in Germany on the 17th of April 1923) of which the following is a specification.

Hand-brushes and nail brushes are two different types of brushes which have been hitherto combined to one brush in such a manner that the bristles for brushing the hands are arranged on the one side of the brush back and those for brushing the nails on the other side.

This invention has for its object to improve the construction of the combined handaud nail brush so that the bristles for brushing the hands and those for brushing the nails are no longer arranged on different sides of the brush back but on the same side of the same, whereby the hancliness of the brush is improved and saving of soap ensured.

An embodiment of the invention is shown by way of example on the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 is a plan view,

Fig. 2 is a view from below,

Fig. 3 is a cross section, and

Fig. 4; a longitudinal section of the improved brush.

The brush back 1 has on its lower surface, into which the bristles are to be fixed, a iectangular projection 2 of the size of a nail brush. In this projection 2 the bristles 3 for brushing the nails are fixed, the bristles 4 for brushing the hand being fixed in the remaining portion of the brush back in such a manner that the free ends of these bristles .t are situated in one plane. The bristles 3 for brushing the nails form a trough-shaped cavity 5 in the surface of the bristles.

Owing to the projection 2 of the brush back 1 the bristles 3 for brushing the nails Serial No. 27,074.

are shorter and consequently stiffer than the bristles 4.

When the brush is being used only one bristle surface has to be rubbed with soap instead of two surfaces as hitherto wherefrom results economy in soap. The improved brush is much more handy in use as it is no longer necessary to turn the brush upside down in order to brush the nails.

A piece of pumice-stone 6 of the approximate size of the upper surface of the brush back and of semi-elliptical cross and longitudinal sections is fixed by means of screws 7 on the brush back. Owing to the bristles for brushing the nails being arranged on the same side of the brush back as the bristles for brushing the hands a pumice-stone can be combined with a brush, which hitherto was not possible. The piece of pumicestone 6 can be removed from the brush to be fixed on another brush.

I claim 1. A brush for brushing the hands and the nails comprising a. brush back provided in its centre with a row of stiff bristles, the bristle ends of said row terminating in a channeled working surface said brush back being provided on either side of said central row of bristles with a group of more flexible bristles the working surface of said more flexible bristles being coterminous with the peripheral bristles of said central group.

2. A brush for brushing the hands and the nails comprising in combination with the brush back a projection at the centre of said brush back of convenient shape and size said projection provided with stiff bristles the ends of said bristles terminating in a channeled working surface said brush back being provided on either side of the'bristles on said projection with a group of more flexible bristles being coterminous with the periph eral bristles of the central group.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

GEORG KARL VVILHE'LM SCHMIDT. 

